팔공산 벚꽃축제 Palgongsan cherry blossom festival

팔공산 벚꽃축제 Palgongsan cherry blossom festival

Our final day of the tour started with breakfast at 7:30am. I woke up exhausted in our hostel but determined to eat something, not realizing that they would've held onto a bagel for me later. I dressed and headed down to the hostel cafeteria where we'd had dinner the night before. I found a tour [...]

Daegu Lantern Festival

Daegu Lantern Festival

After dinner we headed to Duryu baseball park to get a spot for the festival. The lantern festival is in celebration of Buddha's birthday, and kicks off the celebrations a bit early.  (The date for Buddha's birthday changes depending on where you are, in Korea it's the 8th day of the 4th month of lunar [...]

Nine Road Pizzeria

Nine Road Pizzeria

Before going to the festival we stopped at 9 Road Pizzeria for dinner, a chain restaurant, hoping to make sure we ate before going and it was an odd dinner. The first pizza we ordered was a carpriscosa pizza, the description for which just said a ham and cheese pizza, however it came with olives [...]

Mansion 5 맨션5

Mansion 5 맨션5

Mansion 5 is a hanok cafe, which means that it's a traditional Korean style of architecture. This gives the cafe a wonderful atmosphere with two floors of seating and an outdoor garden as well. Though with all that space it doesn't mean it won't get crowded. It's a popular spot to sit with friends and catch [...]

G’day 그데이

G’day 그데이

I took a short weekend trip recently to visit a friend in Daegu and for a festival. She's been doing a lot more exploring and said she had a ton of places she suggested we check out, one of which was G'day a Australian inspired brunch restaurant/cafe. My friend ordered a nutella and marshmallow jaffle [...]

Tarte and Tea Room

Tarte and Tea Room

When we'd been searching for the bbq road we walked past a Tarte and Tea room and decided to go after dinner. Surprisingly we didn't end up with any tea, choosing instead to try some of their specialty drinks, like rose ade and a chocolate cereal milkshake called Choco Crush. I also got a chocolate [...]